For deeper meaning ‘one flew over cuckoo’s nest’ was recently added to Netflix. There’s a lot there to unpack from nurse ‘Ratched’ psychopathic personality and ability to subtly instigate and demean the patients, the viewers tendency to idolise and see them selves in mcmurphy and his attempts to save the minds of fellow patients and in his plight sacrifice himself and die for his friends in a Christ like manner, the patients who suffer from intimacy and trust with women, the doctors who over look the suffering of patients and rely on brutal technics like electro therapy that endure more suffering and lobotomies that mutilate patients. There’s alot to unpack, there’s a book to read, and there’s many you tube video essays that will help you understand the movie and it themes.

Gallipoli (1981) was our nations baby, even featured local Mel Gibson before his break out role in lethal weapon. Nearly every one watched it at school at least once in the lead up to Remembrance Day. Movie builds the nervous tension excellently and the finale minutes are heartbreaking.

Also a big fan of Andrew Garfield in Hacksaw ridge, his on screen dad Hugo Weaving and his trauma and intensity nearly over shadows the movie, but Garfield’s portrayal of Desmond t doss shows what depths bravery has without the flash or propaganda some war movies rely on.